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"I think," Maignan said, "that you need not be uneasy about the Queen of Navarre. I am not at liberty to say what I have heard; but I fancy that, before many hours, she will be on her way to Paris, willingly or unwillingly. As for the seneschal, he and the others will be hunted down, as soon as this matter is settled.
'Only to give you and the gentlemen with you a little exercise, my companion answered, with grim humour, and in a severe tone strange in one so young 'than which nothing is more wholesome after a full meal. That, and a lesson in good manners. Maignan, he continued, raising his voice, 'if this person has anything more to say, answer him. He is nearer your degree than mine.
Now that I had leisure I lived the day over again, and, recalling its dangers and disappointments, felt thankful that all had ended so fairly. I had the most perfect confidence in Maignan, and did not doubt that Bruhl would soon weary, if he had not already wearied, of a profitless siege.
Let us sit down and eat. It is no good jumping in the dark, or meeting troubles half way. We were not through our meal, however, Simon Fleix waiting on us with a pale face, when Maignan came in again from the dark room. 'My lord, he said quietly, 'three men have appeared. Two of them remain twenty paces away.
When I turned I found groups of pale-faced men, standing by twos and threes at my back; who, pointing and muttering and telling one another what Maignan had told us, looked where we had looked. As one spoke and another listened, I saw the old panic revive in their eyes.
We entered without difficulty, and duly found Maignan on guard at the door of my apartments. But a glance at his face sufficed to show that something was wrong; nor did it need the look of penitence which he assumed on seeing us a look so piteous that at another time it must have diverted me to convince me that he had infringed my orders. "How now, sirrah?"
He went reluctantly, muttering vengeance; and I, after rating Maignan soundly for admitting him, returned to my work, supposing that before night I should hear of St. Mesmin's safety. But the matter took another turn, for while I was at dinner the Captain of the Watch came to speak to me. St.
Holde composed while in a dream La Phantasie, which reflects in its harmony its origin; and Nodier created Lydia, and at the same time a whole theory on the future of dreaming. Condillac in dream finished a lecture interrupted the evening before. Kruger, Corda, and Maignan solved in dreams mathematical problems and theorems.
He did not try to escape, however, and Maignan presently came to tell us that he had executed the arrest without difficulty or resistance.
The other two, with the air of servants, were stout fellows, wearing green doublets and leather breeches. All three rode good horses, while a footman led two hounds after them in a leash. On seeing us they cantered forward, the leader waving his bonnet. 'Halt, there! cried my companion, lifting up his voice when they were within a stone's throw of us. 'Maignan!
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